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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Rust
  philosophy rust
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• 3 tribes of programming
  philosophy programming
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• C++20 is Done
  c++ plt
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• I implemented 'defer' for c
  show c
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• A Loveletter to the Atari Lynx
  games historical
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• But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction. (2018)
  video education math
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• Open access journals get a boost from librarians—much to Elsevier’s dismay
  science
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• Ironsides - DNS server made with Ada SPARK
  formalmethods
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• Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- Perl for the XXIimum Century
  perl
  Comments
• Experiences moving from tests to strong typing?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Situated Software
  practices programming
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• Figuring out RAM and bus timing in a 6502 toy computer
  video hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Horrifically Dystopian World of Software Engineering Interviews
  practices
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• An app can be a home-cooked meal
  programming
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• CrossHair: A static analysis tool for Python
  formalmethods python
  Comments
• What's the best GUI library around?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD's hypervisor
  openbsd security
  Comments
• Category Theory for Programmers, OCaml edition (alpha) is out
  math ml
  Comments
• Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 Release
  windows
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• Crystal 0.33.0 released
  programming
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• Other platforms — The Nokia N9
  historical mobile
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• Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux
  linux
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• Mac malware outpaced Windows PCs threats for first time in 2019, report says
  mac
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• NetBSD 9.0 released with new hypervisor, aarch64, updated ZFS
  netbsd
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What language do you prefer for new project starts?
  ask programming
  Comments
• How to fight back against Google AMP
  rant web
  Comments
• OpenSSH 8.2 released
  release
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Racket v7.6
  lisp
  Comments
• Mezzano: An operating system written in Common Lisp
  lisp osdev
  Comments
• Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG
  graphics
  Comments
• Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
  mac
  Comments
• Standard C function to read lines from a file
  c
  Comments
• The Ballot is Busted Before the Blockchain: A Security Analysis of Voatz
  pdf security
  Comments
• Spleen 1.7.0 released, now includes OpenType versions
  design release
  Comments
• llgo removed from LLVM
  compilers go
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sealed Rust Update: The Plan for Safety Critical Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Why suckless is wrong (2016)
  linux systemd
  Comments
• The web as a GUI toolkit
  web
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• Time safety is more important than memory safety
  plt
  Comments
• Let's Give It a Go
  go
  Comments
• MATE 1.24 Released
  release
  Comments
• Linux softwares on Windows with Xlaunch and WSL - Artemis
  linux windows
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• Go for Cloud
  distributed go
  Comments
• Adventures in Obscure C Features (2020)
  c
  Comments
• Why are we so bad at software engineering?
  practices
  Comments
• What are some rule of thumbs you discovered yourself?
  ask practices
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• GitHub CLI is now in beta
  vcs
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• shit -- an implementation of Git using (almost) entirely POSIX shell
  vcs
  Comments
• Rotary Cellphone
  art hardware
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• chacha20.sh -- an implementation of ChaCha20 in Bash script
  crypto unix
  Comments
• Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they're all on this hard drive)
  video law rust
  Comments
• The Best Part of Waking Up, is a Sound Board in Your Cup
  hardware
  Comments
• What UX from 1989 can teach us
  design practices web
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• Checksumming in Filesystems and Why ZFS is Doing It Right
  freebsd
  Comments
• The Zen of Go
  go
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• Notes on the Go translation of Reposurgeon
  go python
  Comments
• On Parallel Programming
  compsci programming
  Comments
• The past and the future of hub
  vcs
  Comments
• How to start using Python Type Annotations with Mypy
  plt python
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I was Wrong about Nix
  practices programming
  Comments
• Agile as Trauma
  historical practices
  Comments
• Oh, don't worry, I've screwed up plenty of things too
  programming
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• Cryptography Dispatches: The Linux CSPRNG Is Now Good
  crypto linux
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• Rob Landley about the /usr split
  historical unix
  Comments
• Compiling a Functional Language Using C++, Part 9 - Garbage Collection
  c++ compilers
  Comments
• SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
  python
  Comments
• Custom GitHub Issue Labels
  practices
  Comments
• All Programming Languages are Wrong
  plt
  Comments
• Why the Future of Data Storage is (Still) Magnetic Tape (2018)
  databases hardware
  Comments
• Manga Guide to Lisp
  education lisp
  Comments
• Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2019
  hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Mitigating Content Marketing
  announce
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• How do you talk to "I have nothing to hide" people?
  ask privacy
  Comments
• Bizcat - an 8x16 bitmap font
  show design graphics
  Comments
• Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features
  linux
  Comments
• Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend
  devops
  Comments
• Reflecting on My Experience With Go, One Year After
  go programming
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• Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice
  emacs
  Comments
• Lets Be Real About Dependencies
  practices
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math
  hardware performance
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• Tools in My Toolbox
  practices
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• Source code has a brief and lonely existence
  philosophy practices programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck, GitHub’s now most starred Haskell project
  haskell
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• Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale
  security web
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• Scheme fatigue
  lisp
  Comments
• A Crystal in Go’s World
  go programming ruby
  Comments
• Working on hard, ambitious graphics software for the dream of FOSS
  c graphics hardware linux reversing
  Comments
• A memory optimized JavaScript engine for mid-range devices such as mobile phone, tablet
  javascript
  Comments
• systemd-homed service merged
  linux systemd
  Comments
• The Wall of Technical Debt
  practices
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• Public Release of MorphOS 3.13
  release
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• oreboot - a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Geometric Algebra
  video graphics math
  Comments
• Demoing Web Applications with Firefox Containers
  browsers web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 9, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My productivity app is a single .txt file
  show practices
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• The tools you'd miss if you left a company
  practices
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• Static v. dynamic languages (2014)
  plt
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• Sometimes you have to stick a screwdriver in it (or how to liberate a Chromebook in ten easy steps)
  hardware
  Comments
• Bringing async/await to embedded Rust
  rust
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• NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth
  historical
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• Real Software Engineering
  video practices
  Comments
• Why Dhall advertises the absence of Turing-completeness
  plt
  Comments
• What are Lisp macros good for, anyway?
  clojure programming
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• Build a Lightning Quick Website using Hugo and S3
  performance web
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• Beyond the mean, median, and mode
  math
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 8, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• TV backlight compensation
  graphics python
  Comments
• 95%-ile isn't that good
  programming
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• FLIF - Free Lossless Image Format
  graphics
  Comments
• My Approach to Getting Dramatically Better as a Programmer
  practices
  Comments
• Dolphin Progress Report dec 2019/Jan 2020
  games
  Comments
• Combinatris: Tetris, but with SK combinators
  compsci programming
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• JPEG XL
  graphics
  Comments
• Creating Sigils
  design
  Comments
• ThinkPad T480 is My New Main Laptop which Runs FreeBSD
  freebsd
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• Mozilla Developer Talks Up WGPU As Their WebGPU Implementation In Rust
  rust
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• How I convinced my government to apologise to Alan Turing
  historical
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• You should publish your older works
  art
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